Joséphine, Empress of the French, Guillon-Lethière, Guillaume Guillon, 1807
The Royal Janitor
Virginia Hambley de Bourmont knew her illustrious family history like the back of her hand. It was her short memory that proved difficult. Her great grandfather who tried to restore the Bourbon’s to power – with the help of …..
“She went by the name of Rose, or Marie-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, later de Beauharnais.”
“She helped Louis XVII‘ escape. Marie-Rose could trace her linage to Rosamund ‘Queen of the Lombars, as could Louis. Lombard Royalty has been lurking in the background of French History for a very long time.”
When John Rudolph Benton de Belmont to Virginia, he gifted her the Louisiana Territory, because in theory her family owned it. Napoleon had no right to sell it. Mark Twain was against this sale, along with many others, because they wanted the West to remain Wild.
“What about the Lombard crown and treasure?”
“The de Bourmont;s took an oath to never speak about it!”
JRP
“Madame de Rambaud was officially in charge of the care of the prince from the day of his birth until 10 August 1792; in other words, for seven years. During these seven years, she never left him, she cradled him, took care of him, dressed him, comforted him, and scolded him. Many times, more than Marie Antoinette, she was a true mother for him”.[3]
Alexandre François Marie, Viscount of Beauharnais (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ də boaʁnɛ]; 28 May 1760 – 23 July 1794) was a French politician and general of the French Revolution. He was the first husband of Joséphine Tascher de La Pagerie, who later married Napoleon Bonaparte and became empress of France. Beauharnais was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror.
Family
Beauharnais was born to the noble Beauharnais family in Fort-Royal (now Fort-de-France), Martinique, in the French West Indies. He was the son of Governor François de Beauharnais, Marquis de la La Ferté-Beauharnais, and Marie Anne Henriette Françoise Pyvart de Chastullé. On 13 December 1779 in Paris, he married Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie, the future Empress of France. They had two children, Eugène (1781–1824) and Hortense (1783–1837).
. Before she met Napoleon, she went by the name of Rose, or Marie-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, later de Beauharnais. She sometimes reverted to using her maiden name in later life. After her marriage to then-General Bonaparte, she adopted the name Joséphine Bonaparte. The misnomer “Joséphine de Beauharnais” emerged during the restoration of the Bourbons, who were hesitant to refer to her by either Napoleon’s surname or her imperial title.[citation needed]
Prison and rumours of escape
1793: In the care of Antoine Simon
Immediately following Louis XVI’s execution, plots were hatched for the escape of the prisoners from the Temple, the chief of these plots were engineered by the Chevalier de Jarjayes [fr], the Baron de Batz, and Lady Atkyns. Others said to be involved in his escape(s) are Paul Barras and Joséphine de Beauharnais.[7]
On 3 July, Louis-Charles was separated from his mother and put in the care of Antoine Simon, a cobbler who had been named his guardian by the Committee of Public Safety. The tales told by royalist writers of the cruelty inflicted by Simon and his wife on the child have not been proved. Louis Charles’ sister, Marie Thérèse, wrote in her memoires about the “monster Simon”, as did Alcide Beauchesne. Antoine Simon’s wife Marie-Jeanne, in fact, took great care of the child’s person.[citation needed] Stories survive narrating how he was encouraged to eat and drink to excess and learned the language of the gutter. The foreign secretaries of Britain and Spain also heard accounts from their spies that the boy was raped by prostitutes in order to infect him with venereal diseases to supply the Commune with manufactured “evidence” against the Queen.[8] However, the scenes related by Alcide de Beauchesne [fr] of the physical torment of the child are not supported by any testimony, though he was at this time seen by a great number of people.
On 6 October, Pache, Chaumette, Jacques Hébert and others visited the boy and secured his signature to charges of sexual molestation against his mother and his aunt.[8] The next day he met his elder sister Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte for the last time.
Virginia and John – Union of Love
Posted on January 4, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
I talked to my ex-fiance last night. She was thrilled that I called. Our flame was reignited. It will never die! Viva Virginia and her family! Here is their castle in France. The Tower of John is in need of repair. After she corrected my pronunciation, I told her about Belle, how I wanted them to meet because Ms. Burch speaks perfect French. Virginia’s accent is of the source. The Bourmonts are kin to the Anjous who are trying to restore the French Monarchy. I predicted the downfall of the Republican party and a coup by the right-wing traitors of our Democracy. I proposed a claim to the Lousiana Territory, and the establishment of a Western Kingdom, just in case. With the presidents attempt to extort votes in Georgia, we are not out of the woods.
De Bourmont – Anjou Legitimists | Rosamond Press
Reclaiming the Lousiana Territory | Rosamond Press
With the corruption of the Prostestant church by the evangelical heresy, I am looking at the Catholic religion, especially the Order of Saint Francis.
John Presco
Jessie Benton – Napoleon – Beauharnais
Posted on June 20, 2012 by Royal Rosamond Press
I don’t quite know what to make of this
“The Beauharnais family has some representation in almost every European court. My father may
have descended from a brother of Alexander Eugene’s father. Ibis General Beauharnais pronounces
the name “Eugene” in such a way as to lead one to believe that he had never learned to speak French in his
youth. He pronounces it “Oozhun,” with some accent on the first syllable.
General Beauharnais says his mother was a Benton. My father had been on friendly terms at Washington with Senator Benton of Missouri. My father was well known here by the late Judge Leander Quint and also Cap
tain M. R. Roberts of this City.”
Jessie Benton lived in France for nearly a year and was fluent in the French language. She was very close with Count de la Garde, a cousin of Eugene and Hortense Beauharnais, who left her letters from all members of the Bonaparte family, and filled her in on the latest intrigues of this family that many authors connect with the Priory de Sion. I once subscribed to the theories there was such a thing, and filed a claim in the Probate of my later sister, Christine Rosamond Benton, where I mention the Merovingians.
Jessie Benton’s daughter burned many papers and documents she inherited from her mother and father.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2012
I Claim The Kingdom of Virginia de Bourmont
Posted on July 26, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
Born On Berlin Way
“Belmont is a stepping stone for my historic expectations“.“
Like a Jig-Saw puzzle all the pieces are falling into place! Why didn’t Virginia Hambley’s grandfather try to restore Maria Carolina to the thrown? After all she is the beloved sister of Queen Marie Antoinette – and she escaped the monstrous guillotine!
For nine months I have not been able to reach my ex-fiancé. Her phone rings, but no one picks up. She told me her family was upset with my wild royal claims, but, if NATO crumbles, than we may see the restoration of Royal Houses across Europe, and – in Russia! I believe the de Bourmonts in France – love my posts and this blog – especially when I proclaim the efforts of Louis-Auguguste-Victor to restore the French Monarchy. I suspect they have been trying to contact me – having done my genealogy. Were they told – I am dead? I’m afraid to discover Virginia – is dead. I can not bare more grief. I am…so alone! But, now I wonder if she is being held hostage, in safe keeping in one the de Bourmont castle?
On this day July 26, 2024, I John Presco lay clam to the Bourmont castles – and widery. The trains were sabotaged in France. For thirty years I have been compiling proof Jesus did not found a Democracy. But, now I wonder if there is a real Jesus – who founded many earthly kingdoms – that he wants restored. Are all the kingdoms being….raised from the dead! Go ask Lazarus! I think he knows! For surely he did not go to sleep again? Then he was the first royal to know…..eternal life?
John Presco ‘King of California’
When Virginia Hambley de Bourmont got down on her wounded knee, took my hand, and proposed to me, was my long search for the Grail, at an end. Virginia descends from Geoffrey IV de la Tour Landry who compiled Livre pour l’enseignement de ses filles for the instruction of his daughters. This book is also titled ‘The Book of the Knight of the Tower’. Geoffrey may have authored Pontus and Sidonia a medieval prose roman that was put to song, thus, here is alas The Phantom of this Opera!
In 1701, the new king married his second cousin Maria Luisa of Savoy, with whom he had four sons. Their two surviving sons were the future Spanish kings Louis I and Ferdinand VI. Maria Luisa died in 1714, and Philip remarried to Elisabeth Farnese. Philip and Elisabeth had seven children, including the future Charles III of Spain; Infanta Mariana Victoria, who became Queen of Portugal; Infante Philip, who became Duke of Parma; and Infanta María Antonia Fernanda, who became Queen of Sardinia. It was well known that the union of France and Spain under one monarch would upset the balance of power in Europe, and that other European powers would take steps to prevent it. Philip’s accession in Spain provoked the 13-year War of the Spanish Succession, which continued until the Treaty of Utrecht forbade any future possibility of unifying the French and Spanish crowns while confirming his accession to the throne of Spain.
The Coming Kingdom of Virginia
Posted on March 19, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Belmont is a stepping stone for my historic expectations. Every registered Republican threw our REAL history away and went for half-naked Jacob wearing a set of horns. The party founded by my kin sat Horned Jacob in the honor seat in the Senate Chambers. And, then they pretend they didn’t. And now Little Rocket Man is making his real move on destroying us.
The Honorable Fortune Cookie | Rosamond Press
After Georgia Attacks, Asian-Americans Demand Serious Action on Bias (msn.com)
For most of the last year, Asian-Americans have sounded the alarm over the rising discrimination they have experienced and witnessed, fueled in part by racist language and false claims about the coronavirus by former President Donald J. Trump and other public officials. Celebrities, activists and influencers on social media have implored people to stop the hate against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Here is another prophetic post.
King John
The Kingdom ofVirginia
Posted onDecember 24, 2020byRoyal Rosamond Press
I must be guided by an Angel. An hour ago I discovered the King of Scotland was married to Henritta Maria of the House of Bourbon, who the State of Maryland in named. My ex-fiancé Virginia is kin to the Bourbons. On August 23, 2018 I named one of the Seven States after her. I foresaw the coming of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to dwell in California.
I stuck my neck wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy out on this one! These are the posts that incited my lunatic neighbors to come as a mob to my door and cry:
“You need to be locked up!”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Maria
As President I Will Restore The FrenchTerritory
Posted onOctober 4, 2020byRoyal Rosamond Press
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Was French Foreign Legion Going to Invade California?
Posted on November 22, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
“Defeated on the battlefield, conservatives sought the aid of France to effect regime change and establish a monarchy in Mexico, a plan that meshed with Napoleon III’s plans to re-establish the presence of the French Empire in the Americas.“
For your entertainment enjoyment, I supply my readers of Royal Rosamond Press with an exhilarating soundtrack to go with my continuance of the movie ‘Napoleon. Feel free to adjust the sound level.
The Bonaparte Family in America
I watched the movie ‘Napoleon last night and was impressed with the brief shots of the Prussian Army. I suspect the director did not want to spend too much time on them, lest he be accused of being pro-German, or, being anti-Semitic, which is huge right now in the Propaganda War Israel, and aspects of the American media, are conducting. Anti-Semitism – is real! Israel had negotiated with Hamas in the past, and thus titling them “terrorists” does not work. Civilized Nations don’t negotiate with terrorists. Netanyahu made sure President Biden was signing off on the exchange of hostages. Consider the Barbary Coast Pirates who took many infidels hostage – and made them their slaves!
While I watched the Battle of Waterloo, I considered the role that Louis Auguste Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont played in defeating Napoleon at Waterloo. Apparently de Bourmont was a turncoat – and traitor? This idea is deliberately blurred, because de Bourmont was a avid Royalists, with family ties to the Great Conde. This Royalist knew Napoleon was not royalty, and was in the way to the return of the True Monarchy, who manipulated Napoléon to their own ends. He could muster the troops – and was victorious! This is the theme of this movie.
As I watched I realized I am one of the few people – in the world – who knows what is really going on. When I saw the scenes of Napoleon in Egypt, I was reminded of De Bourmont’s invasion of Algiers that was conducted to destroy the Barbary Pirates – and cement the formation of the New Monarch with the French People. De Bourmont was mimicking Napoleon! He is also preparing the way for my great grandfather, Sir Isaac Hull who captained the U.S.S, Constitution who made was against the Caliph and freed hostages!
After the movie, I realized Napoleon was not just entertainment for me – and Virginia! I realized My Plot to gift my fiancé with the Lousiana Territory – WAS REAL – because the French – ARE PLOTTERS! It’s what they do! There us much evidence Napoleon 111 wanted to invade America, and depending on who won the Civil War – CONQUER AMERICA! This is – what the French – did! Did the Confederacy make a secret agreement to give France everything west of the Missippippi – if they invaded California – and destroyed John Fremont Western Army?
On Monday night, the Speaker of the House met with the Insurrectionist, Donald Trump Mar-a-Lago. It is rumored Mike Johnson is a Christian Nationalist who wants to install King Jesus in his American Kingdom. How about – Emperor Jesus – who declares…
“I found King David’s crown – in the gutter!”
The Red States – seceded from the Union. If the Confederates had won, would there be a De Bourmont winery in California – with castle?
John Presco
Copyright 2023
Newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson met with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday night, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
The meeting, which took place at a fundraiser for Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., marked the first time the two have met in-person since Johnson was elected on Oct. 25.
Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity. The process begins once a group proclaims an act of secession (such as a declaration of independence).[1] A secession attempt might be violent or peaceful, but the goal is the creation of a new state or entity independent of the group or territory from which it seceded.[2] Threats of secession can be a strategy for achieving more limited goals.[3]
Notable examples of secession, and secession attempts, include:
• the Confederate States of America seceding from the Union, setting off the American Civil War;
“With Napoleon’s orders in their hands, the Prussians were able to take the appropriate countermeasures to gather their army. Bourmont’s defection enraged the French rank and file. Though their loyalty to Napoleon was absolute, they began to suspect treachery in their generals. Étienne Hulot, who became the acting division commander, was compelled to give a speech that pledged loyalty to Napoleon and the tricolor.[3]“
When Virginia Hambley de Bourmont got down on her wounded knee, took my hand, and proposed to me, was my long search for the Grail, at an end. Virginia descends from Geoffrey IV de la Tour Landry who compiled Livre pour l’enseignement de ses filles for the instruction of his daughters. This book is also titled ‘The Book of the Knight of the Tower’. Geoffrey may have authored Pontus and Sidonia a medieval prose roman that was put to song, thus, here is alas The Phantom of this Opera!
Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry married Jeanne Le Rouge.
Chateau de Breze & Bourmont Wine
Posted on April 23, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
“Richard Eldridge, owner and winemaker, stumbled into wine through marriage to the late Valerie de Bourmont who introduced him to wine. In a sense, the rest is history.”
I met Virginia Hambley in 1998, and wanted children with her. When I learned she could not have children, and when my sixteen year old daughter appear in my life, I told Virginia I would share Heather with her. The same went for grandson, Tyler Hunt, when he was born. Virgnia was not born when her two older sisters attended the wedding of their cousin in New York where she was born. Clark Hambley was an artist and worked at a prestigious advertising agency.
Like her sister before her, after graduating from High School, Virginia was invited to stay with her Bourmont kindred in France. She told me they had a winery. When I showed her a photo of Breze Chateau, and asked her if this is where she stayed for nearly month, she said this was the place of the family winery.
“You didn’t tell me it was a castle!”
Jon Presco
Château de Brézé is a small, dry-moated castle located in Brézé, near Saumur in the Loire Valley, France. The château was transformed during the 16th and the 19th centuries. The current structure is Renaissance in style yet retains medieval elements including a drawbridge and a 12th-century trogloditic basement. Today, it is the residence of descendants of the ancient lords. The château is a listed ancient monument originally dating from 1060.[1] A range of wines are produced at the château which has 30 hectares of vineyards.[2]
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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher commanded the Prussian Army, one of the Coalition armies that defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig
On the morning of 15 June, as the French Army of the North advanced into Belgium, the 14th Division led the IV Corps column of march. Near Florennes, Bourmont halted his division. On the pretence of scouting ahead, he and his staff, rode ahead with a squadron of lancers. After gaining a suitable distance from French lines, he sent the lancers back with a letter for Gérard. In the missive, he explained that he was deserting but promised, “They will not get any information from me which will injure the French army, composed of men I love.” He and his staff put the white Bourbon cockade on their hats and galloped for the nearest Prussian position. He immediately handed over Napoleon’s operational plans to the Prussians. Gebhard von Blucher‘s chief of staff August von Gneisenau was pleased to receive this windfall. However, Blucher had no use for turncoats and called Bourmont a traitor to his face. When Gneisenau noted that Bourmont was wearing the white cockade, making them allies, Blucher screamed, “Cockade be damned! A dirty dog is always a dirty dog!”[2]
With Napoleon’s orders in their hands, the Prussians were able to take the appropriate countermeasures to gather their army. Bourmont’s defection enraged the French rank and file. Though their loyalty to Napoleon was absolute, they began to suspect treachery in their generals. Étienne Hulot, who became the acting division commander, was compelled to give a speech that pledged loyalty to Napoleon and the tricolor.[3]
Napoleon spots the Prussians[edit]
At about 13:15, Napoleon saw the first columns of Prussians around the village of Lasne-Chapelle-Saint-Lambert, 4 to 5 miles (6.4 to 8.0 km) away from his right flank—about three hours march for an army.[89] Napoleon’s reaction was to have Marshal Soult send a message to Grouchy telling him to come towards the battlefield and attack the arriving Prussians.[90] Grouchy, however, had been executing Napoleon’s previous orders to follow the Prussians “with your sword against his back” towards Wavre, and was by then too far away to reach Waterloo.[91]
Grouchy was advised by his subordinate, Gérard, to “march to the sound of the guns”, but stuck to his orders and engaged the Prussian III Corps rear guard under the command of Lieutenant-General Baron von Thielmann at the Battle of Wavre. Moreover, Soult’s letter ordering Grouchy to move quickly to join Napoleon and attack Bülow would not actually reach Grouchy until after 20:00.[91]
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Portrait of Napoleon III, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, c. 1850s
The Americans now had two choices: pay tribute or fight the pirates.”
“Returning to Paris in October, 1855, he was warmly received
by his friend Prince Napoleon who overwhelmed him with questions
about his travels in America. “I answered them the best I could.”
Cipriani wrote, “But , it is a veritable deluge….We keep talking
about my journeys, of the Sanora, of conquering it.” Perhaps he
thought of seizing it for France and hoped the prince might persuade
his cousin the Emperor to finance the undertaking. “It is an idea in
the air,” he added, “that I would willingly undertake, if necessary
capital and men were available.”
Napoleon with his nieces and nephews on the terrace at Saint-Cloud, by Louis Ducis, 1810. Napoleon and four of his siblings have living descendants.
Here.
It appears that Cipriani was successful in uniting the House
of Savoy with the Bonapartes, and thus the House of Stuart. Prince
Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul of France, Pr Napoléon, married in Turin
in 1859, Princess Clothilde of Savoy daughter of Victor Emanuel. From
this union would come other Bonapartes with the name Victor. Prince
Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric, Prince LOUIS Jérôme Victor Emmanuel
Léopold Marie, and, Prince Charles Marie Jérôme Victor
Was the Jacobite ‘Order of the White Rose’ somewhat successful
in their plan to put the Stuarts on a throne and rule the world?
There appears to contention with the Prussians who can claim the same
ancestry through the Winter Queen of Bohemia, Elizabeth Stuart,
daughter of King James, and thus the Hanovers who are in all regards,
the Windsors.
French expeditionary force, 31 December 1862[edit]
At its peak in 1863, the French expeditionary force counted 38,493 men[4] : 740 (which represented 16.25% of the French army).[121] 6,654[7] : 231 French died, including 4,830 from disease.[7]: 231 Among these losses, 1,918 of the deaths were from the regiment of the French Foreign Legion.[122]: 267
Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont (2 September 1773 – 27 October 1846) was a French general, diplomat and statesman who was named Marshal of France in 1830. A lifelong royalist, he emigrated from France soon after the outbreak of the French Revolution and fought with the counter-revolutionary Army of Condé for two years, then joined the insurrection in France for three more years before going into exile. He was arrested after assisting the Georges Cadoudal conspiracy, but escaped to Portugal.
In 1807 he took advantage of an amnesty to rejoin the French army and served in several campaigns until 1814. He rose in rank to become a general of division. During this period, he was suspected of being an agent of the Comte d’Artois and passing information to France’s enemies. Though he was notoriously anti-Napoleon and many officers did not trust him, he was employed again during the Hundred Days. Immediately after the campaign began, he deserted to the Prussian army with Napoleon’s plans. King Louis XVIII of France gave him a command in the Spanish expedition of 1823.
Promoted to Marshal of France, he was put in command of the Invasion of Algiers in 1830. However, after the July Revolution, he refused to recognize King Louis-Philippe of France and was sacked. After being involved in a plot against the new government, he fled to Portugal in 1832. He led the army of Dom Miguel in the Liberal Wars, and when the liberals won, he fled to Rome. He accepted another amnesty, this time in 1840, and died in France six years later.
The second French intervention in Mexico (Spanish: segunda intervención francesa en México), also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867),[13] was a military invasion of the Republic of Mexico by the French Empire of Napoleon III, purportedly to force the collection of Mexican debts in conjunction with Great Britain and Spain. Mexican conservatives supported the invasion, since they had been defeated by the liberal government of Benito Juárez in a three-year civil war. Defeated on the battlefield, conservatives sought the aid of France to effect regime change and establish a monarchy in Mexico, a plan that meshed with Napoleon III’s plans to re-establish the presence of the French Empire in the Americas. Although the French invasion displaced Juárez’s Republican government from the Mexican capital and the monarchy of Archduke Maximilian was established, the Second Mexican Empire collapsed within a few years. Material aid from the United States, whose four-year civil war ended in 1865, invigorated the Republican fight against the regime of Maximilian, and the 1866 decision of Napoleon III to withdraw military support for Maximilian’s regime accelerated the monarchy’s collapse. Maximilian and two Mexican generals were executed by firing squad on 19 June 1867, ending this period of Mexican history.
The intervention came as a civil war, the Reform War, had just concluded, and the intervention allowed the Conservative opposition against the liberal social and economic reforms of President Juárez to take up their cause once again. The Mexican Catholic Church, Mexican conservatives, much of the upper-class and Mexican nobility, and some Native Mexican communities invited, welcomed and collaborated with the French empire’s help to install Maximilian of Habsburg as Emperor of Mexico.[14] The emperor himself, however proved to be of liberal inclination and continued some of the Juárez government’s most notable liberal measures. Some liberal generals defected to the Empire, including the powerful, northern governor Santiago Vidaurri, who had fought on the side of Juárez during the Reform War.
America’s First Victory Over Terrorism
Posted on March 27, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
I wanted Virginia and I to have a child, but, her mother tied her tubes due to her head injury. Her ancestors were at the court of Rene d’Anjou. There is no good youtube program on him. What a disgrace. No wonder Europe falls to a moron and Putin.
Virginia’s family hid their valuables in the basement of this castle we see above during the French Revolution. Many of her blood ties went to the Guillotine. I have a narrated video of Virginia wandering about picking up cigarette in the park.
“Lady’s and gentleman. Here we see a woman who is heir to the French throne walking about picking up cigarette butts the pigs have tossed about. Who would do it if not the French Royals?”
I don’t give a rat’s ass how many bad guys James Bond shoots, in my book, he is missing the point. Virginia is one of the bravest people I know. She was on a college excursion when the van got in a terrible wreck. They pulled her out from under a dead student, a young man. She was in a coma for 28 days. Most of her ability to remember, is gone. She would leave her infant in a bathtub. Rena has a million poems in her head. These two women, are Victory Bond.
Virginia was twenty when the major part of her life, ended. The brilliance that got left behind came into my reclusive ways. I successfully pushed everyone away, but, Virginia. She wanted to know who she was. She wanted me to help her find herself. I became devoted to her. I thought I was there at her beck and call. But, I could not be, not all of me, for the place where we make and keep our sense of endearment, was missing, left behind, on the highway to Coos Bay.
We are all damaged. I fell in love with Lara Roozemond, for she speaks of being damaged. She pens poems about being broken, cut off, somehow, some way. She is my inspiration for Victoria Bond. World Honesty…………hangs by a thread.
John Presco 007
LET’S SAVE THE ST. JOHN’S TOWER AT THE CHÂTEAU DE BOURMONT!
Reading180 %$17,963Collected on 10,000 eurosDonation vs. Donation113Contributions from 9 countriesFinishedSave from the collapse a tower of the former fortress of the castle of Bourmont, family residence since the 14th century and high place of the chouannerie, located on the steps of Brittany.Share this projectServane de BourmontThe Historic Home Castle Freigned – Vallons-de-l’Erdre Challenges CAMPAIGN COMMENTS16 CONTRIBUTORS113 NEWS2
The Historic Home supports the Château de Bourmont (member of the Association of Historic Homes) and joins their restoration project.
THE CASTLE OF BOURMONT
ST. JOHN’S TOWER FOR ALL, ALL FOR HER!
We are launching a campaign of works to stabilize the remains of an imposing 15th century tower,at the southwest corner of the courtyard of Bourmont Castle,located in the Loire-Atlantique. This tower has stood guard for more than five centuries and recalls the defensive role of the place when Bourmont was a stronghold of the Kingdom of France against the Duchy of Brittany.
The high place of the cabbage industry, this house keeps within it the memory of the terrible battles of the revolutionary period between the Whites and the Blues in a fratricidal war during which Bourmont was burned many times. This tower was notably an essential element of the defence of the fortress in 1795 when Bourmont Castle became the headquarters of the Catholic and Royal Army of Maine, Anjou and Upper Britain under the command of General de Scépeaux. It is here that The Marshal of Bourmont (1773-1846), a tireless actor from a troubled period in the history of France, whose memory his descendants now transmit, rests.
Entry castle
Logis and North Tower
Amaury and Servane de Bourmont with their children
INTRODUCING THE PROJECT
As young buyers, we want to make visitors of the place aware of the efforts undertaken to save these remains that make up its architectural unity. This project aims to preserve a remnant of the 15th century of high quality, inserting itself into a preserved picturesque complex. The previous restoration dated 1850 unfortunately contributed to the weakening of the building, which collapsed half a century ago.
A family home and a witness to the history of France, Bourmont aims to welcome visitors passing through but also to regularly bring together all those attached to it by organising dynamic and unifying events at the communal level and more broadly at the departmental and regional level.
For these reasons, we want to save the old St. John’s Tower from a total and inevitable disappearance by permanently stabilizing it in its current state.
WHAT WILL THIS COLLECTION BE USED FOR?
The first phase of the work should help to secure the site by stabilizing the stilt that threatens ruin with the help of a gondola. Then, the gravois will be sorted:on the one hand, the shale rubbing; on the other hand, the carved tuffeau stones that will be preserved.
The second step will be to stabilize the remaining but very fragile sections of walls, by large injections of lime, in order to ensure the coherence of the masonry and to strengthen the structure (stretching the bays, re-establishing the lintels in tuffeau of these, consolidating their bases and closing the cracks).
The third step will be to put the walls’ macrases out of water with appropriate lead protections.
Finally, only if our budget allows us, a final stage will highlight a Rockstone from the Renaissance period (1564) carved with the weapons of François de Maillé de La Tour-Landry and Diane de Rohan, updated in 1996 in the rubble of the tower. If the entourage has suffered, the central stone of a single block on which the weapons are carved is fortunately intact. The final step will be the development of a terrace accessible from the courtyard to enter it.
Previous state circa 1900
After a call for tenders from various approved companies and a detailed study of the estimates, the total amount of the project amounts to 190,000 euros, which will be financed in part by grants and partly from our own funds. Nevertheless, we hope to raise 15% of this sum in donations and sponsorships.
Forecast budget: $190k
Donations and sponsorships: 15%
Self-financing: 35-45%
WHO ARE WE?
Taking over The Castle of Bourmont with our four children, we are the 25th generation to take up the torch to make love this family cradle and pass on its memory. We are working together to support this house, which has been passed down to the same family since 1697.
HOW CAN WE SUPPORT THIS PROJECT?
You can support this project:
- – by donating online by credit card on this page after registration on the Dartagnans website
- – by making a bank transfer after registering on the Dartagnans website
- – by sending a cheque, on the back of which you will include your email address,written in the following order Historic Residence – St John’s Tower of Bourmont Castle,sent to the following address:
Dartagnans
Campaign St John’s Tower for
all, all for it! 15 rue de Milan
75009 PARIS
CHALLENGEABLE DONATIONS
Your donation is defically defically defyed if it fulfils the terms and conditions of Articles 200 and 238 bis of the general tax code, in particular because it is a private property in selfless management. At the end of the collection, you will receive a tax receipt allowing you to reduce your tax:
– Individually, you can deduct 66% of your donation within 20% of your taxable income.
– As a company, all payments to the project allow a 60% reduction in corporate tax on the amount of these payments, taken within the limit of 0.5% of the company’s C.A. H.T.
Parents of owners up to the 4th degree (including first cousin) will not be eligible for the tax reduction.
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